selection

Definitions

• The process or act of selecting.
• Something selected.
• A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• A musical piece.
• (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
• (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.
• (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place.
• (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
• (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.
• (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.
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